Official PBC Good Grammar Week!

[Takon]

Well since the average user's vocabulary and spelling skills are atrocious, this will be a good way of promoting proper grammar usage.

Here are the rules:

We will be keeping track of your posts, for new members, your posts won't always count cause you're new and such.

Mostly, points will be awarded for correct spelling (typo's excluded) proper punctuation usage and sentence structure. (We'll just ignore paragraphs, since 'Tab' usually takes you to the 'Submit' button)

Some point will be awarded for common mistakes, proper abbreviations ect.

I think you get the point. ;)

This all begins on Monday of next week, and ends the next Sunday.

Good luck!

[stealthyeliminator]

Wow, that will be hard for me.

[GrungeIsDead]

you spelt 'usually' wrong, and I hope the etc... was a joke.

[Doorman]

I certainly hope this is geared towards the new users. I would hate to take the cake on this one ;)

[yellowpumpguy]

Originally posted by Doorman@May 20 2005, 02:04 PM
I certainly hope this is geared towards the new users. I would hate to take the cake on this one ;)
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I think I have this one. I have excellent spelling and grammar.

[dyedude22]

Originally posted by Doorman@May 20 2005, 04:04 PM
I certainly hope this is geared towards the new users. I would hate to take the cake on this one ;)
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You forgot a period in your sentence.

:P

[SpyderPB911]

I'm laughing out loud at the previous post.

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

Im a good ol southern boy. We dont take grammar for nothin! :P

[Poppintaco]

Originally posted by PaintballinnTGP1608@May 20 2005, 09:55 PM
Im a good ol southern boy. We dont take grammar for nothin! :P
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I heard that ;)

[Takon]

Originally posted by yellowpumpguy@May 20 2005, 06:29 PM
I think I have this one.* I have excellent spelling and grammar.
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Correction; "I think I have this one, I have excellent spelling and grammar.

[TiPpMaNnGuY13]

slpeling? pragarfs? waht?

[Takon]

Originally posted by GrungeIsDead@May 20 2005, 04:54 PM
you spelt 'usually' wrong, and I hope the etc... was a joke.
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I put one too many "ect." in there, and missing a double letter is a minor fault. Maybe your keyboard sucks and you have to jam every single letter hard for it to register until my fingers are tired and I can't type anymore... :blink:

Oh yes, before I forget.

Mods, you can't play, neither can I.

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

Im serious!!! This is hard on the southern boys that aint fair.. :(

Yeah I know I forgot an apostrophe and aint.... BUT I DONT CARE CUZ IM SOUTHERN!!

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

Oh, and Takon, the "I have excellent spelling thing", that would be a comma splice. :P

[Takon]

Originally posted by PaintballinnTGP1608@May 20 2005, 10:59 PM
Oh, and Takon, the "I have excellent spelling thing", that would be a comma splice. :P
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"I have excellent spelling" thing

Thats where it goes.

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

Do I care? Not really, but that doesnt keep it from being a comma splice does it?

[Takon]

*cough* We're half way through the week, I still see many many users with horrible spellingm no punctuation AT ALL and many other things.

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

That includes me.....

*Realize I put a period and not a question mark.*

[joeyk803c]

I gotten thes shizzle downe dawg. Know porblem four mi.


This will be fun, but so I can understand: My posts are graded upon grammar, vocabulary and whatever else?

[stealthyeliminator]

Originally posted by Takon@May 20 2005, 09:12 PM
Correction; "I think I have this one, I have excellent spelling and grammar.
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That could be two different sentences and still be correct.

"Spelling Mistakes

Don't skip this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorant."

I stole that from somewhere some time ago. I hope I don't get sued for copywrite.

[Doorman]

That has been p######ed around the net a long time in email forwards, I think you're safe :D

[BloodBlade09]

Language is the only class that i came close to failing :P

[PaintballinnTGP1608]

Wow, Seathlty.... Wehred you laren taht? LOL :D

[yellowpumpguy]

What ever happened with this? Did any one ever win?

[stealthyeliminator]

No, I think takon left before it was time to announced a winner, can't remember..

I thought it was an unwritten rule to bring back dead threads??? Bad pumpguy, bad.

[yellowpumpguy]

Originally posted by stealthyeliminator@Sep 6 2005, 04:26 PM
No, I think takon left before it was time to announced a winner, can't remember..

I thought it was an unwritten rule to bring back dead threads??? Bad pumpguy, bad.
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Oh okay. How am I bad? You just said it's unwritten real TO bring them back. Man you just made your self sound dumb. :lol:

[WindMill]

I'm confused. I'm guessing noone won this, but if I were here then I would've won.

[dyedude22]

No, no one won. Because all of your grammar sucks.